Warlock (novel)

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Warlock
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:	34
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Ace, Benny
Enemy:	Warlock, IDEA
Setting:	Earth, England, London & Canterbury & Kent, circa 2014 Earth, USA, New York, circa 2014
Author:	Andrew Cartmel
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	January, 1995
Format:	Paperback Book, 359 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204336
Previous Story:	Parasite
Following Story:	Set Piece

Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.

There’s a strange new drug on the street. It’s called warlock and some people say it’s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.

Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.

This disturbing sequel to Warhead moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor

• Buys a copy of Serial Killers Weekly.
• Finds New York exhausting.
• Is ambidextrous.

• Ace

• Gets given a strong dose of Warlock, which transfers her mind into a black cat's.

• Bernice Summerfield

• Is under the alias of Miss Winterhill for much of this novel.

• Creed McIlveen

• An IDEA agent.

• Justine Wheaton

• Gets captured in a forced prostitution house "Kill her baby. Then put her to work in the heavy S&M section.".
• Creed and Mrs Woodcott save her and her baby. (The baby is Vincent Wheaton's)
• Justine runs off with Creed (leaving husband Vincent).

• Paulie Keaton

• Owner of aforementioned prostitution house.

• Vincent Wheaton

• Mrs Woodcott

• Jack

• Gets trapped in the body of a dog.

• Shell

• Goes through the same procedure as Ace and also ends up with her mind in a cat.
• Dies.

[edit] References

• Warlock (drug) smells like liquorice, it magnifies emotions and makes them into reality. However Warlock is actually an alien intelligence.
• IDEA is the International Drug Enforcement Agency.
• The Doctor's House has a computer with a voice interface that can sound like Cary Grant. The front gate says Beware of the God.

• The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at the Doctor's house for almost a year.

• Canterbury Cathedral is destroyed accidentally by Vincent.

[edit] Notes

• This is the second novel in Andrew Cartmel's War Trilogy of; Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Warlock, Warchild.
• A prelude to this novel was published in DWM Issue 221.

[edit] Continuity

• Vincent, Justine, Mrs Woodcott and James McIlveen first appeared in NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead.
• EDA: Revolution Man also features an alien drug like substance.

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Warlock
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Warlock
• Prelude to Warlock as published in DWM#221

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